Animate The Easy Way

Izzy Video did a nice tutorial about creating animated videos. A reader offered this suggestion for even simpler animations:

1. shoot all your still-frame images
2. put them all in one folder
3. open Quicktime Player Pro.
4. go to the pulldown for Open > Image sequence
5. point it to the folder where the images are contained
6. pick whatever frame rate you desire
7. sit back and enjoy your movie

Izzy’s tutorial, while a bit more complicated using Final Cut Pro, offers some additional suggestions:

• Use tripod
• Set still camera (not video camera) to manual mode
• Run each photo for .02 seconds (30 frames per second).

I’d never have the patience to make a 10-second video from 300 photos, so you can also run each photo for a bit longer and still have a decent perception of movement.